Hi, On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 06:31:15PM +1000, harisri wrote: > I have a Linux-2.4.19pre10aa4 computer and I have seen an error message > "Unexpected dirty buffer encountered at do_get_write_access:598 (03:05 > blocknr 0)" appears in the log. > The one and only File system in my computer is /, and it is an EXT3 fs > (mounted with defaults options). Is this error message is an indication > of any serier nature? Usually not, but it can be (particularly in data=journal mode), which you're not using. It can also arise if you are running something like "dump" or "tune2fs" on a mounted filesystem --- it should be benign in those cases as long as it's a recent kernel. The current ext3 cvs contains one fix for the known instance where this can happen unexpectedly (the one that can corrupt data=journal systems). Cheers, Stephen
